Bards of Solidarity honored with tribute concert
PR dla Zagranicy
Julian Horodyski
04.06.2019 16:00
A tribute concert to two songwriters hailed as the bards of the Solidarity movement was set to take place on Tuesday as Poland marked 30 years since elections which signalled the end of communism.
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The two songwriters, Przemysław Gintrowski and Jacek Kaczmarski, are the authors of the famous Solidarity-era protest song “Walls” (“Mury”), which came to be the pro-democracy movement’s unofficial anthem.
Songs written by the composers were to be performed on Tuesday by Polish musicians such as L.U.C., Maleo Reggae Rockers and Paweł Kukiz.
The concert was to start at 6pm at the main campus of the University of Warsaw.
On June 4, 1989, the first partially free elections after World War II were held to the lower house of Poland’s parliament, the Sejm, and completely free elections were held to the upper house, the Senate.
The Solidarity opposition movement scored a resounding victory, winning all the seats available to it in the Sejm, and all but one seat in the freely contested Senate.
(jh/pk)
Source: IAR
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